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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 9.4, Package name: coreutils-9.4, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation
utilities of the GNU operating system. These are the core utilities which
are expected to exist on every operating system.

Previously these utilities were offered as three individual sets of GNU
utilities, fileutils, shellutils, and textutils. Those three have been
combined into a single set of utilities called the coreutils.

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   2023-11-15 16:21:18 by Tobias Nygren | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
coreutils: fix Darwin rpath issue
   2023-09-08 21:12:52 by Paolo Vincenzo Olivo | Files touched by this commit (4) | Package updated
Log message:
sysutils/coreutils | misc/gnuls : update to version 9.4

* Noteworthy changes in release 9.4 (2023-08-29) [stable]

This is a stabilization release coming about 19 weeks after the 9.3 release.
There have been 162 commits by 10 people in the 19 weeks since 9.3.

** Bug fixes

  On GNU/Linux s390x and alpha, programs like 'cp' and 'ls' no longer
  fail on files with inode numbers that do not fit into 32 bits.
  [This bug was present in "the beginning".]

  'b2sum --check' will no longer read unallocated memory when
  presented with malformed checksum lines.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.2]

  'cp --parents' again succeeds when preserving mode for absolute directories.
  Previously it would have failed with a "No such file or directory" error.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.1]

  'cp --sparse=never' will avoid copy-on-write (reflinking) and copy offloading,
  to ensure no holes present in the destination copy.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]

  cksum again diagnoses read errors in its default CRC32 mode.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]

  'cksum --check' now ensures filenames with a leading backslash character
  are escaped appropriately in the status output.
  This also applies to the standalone checksumming utilities.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.25]

  dd again supports more than two multipliers for numbers.
  Previously numbers of the form '1024x1024x32' gave "invalid number" \ 
errors.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.1]

  factor, numfmt, and tsort now diagnose read errors on the input.
  [This bug was present in "the beginning".]

  'install --strip' now supports installing to files with a leading hyphen.
  Previously such file names would have caused the strip process to fail.
  [This bug was present in "the beginning".]

  ls now shows symlinks specified on the command line that can't be traversed.
  Previously a "Too many levels of symbolic links" diagnostic was given.
  [This bug was present in "the beginning".]

  pinky, uptime, users, and who no longer misbehave on 32-bit GNU/Linux
  platforms like x86 and ARM where time_t was historically 32 bits.
  Also see the new --enable-systemd option mentioned below.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]

  'pr --length=1 --double-space' no longer enters an infinite loop.
  [This bug was present in "the beginning".]

  shred again operates on Solaris when built for 64 bits.
  Previously it would have exited with a "getrandom: Invalid argument" \ 
error.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]

  tac now handles short reads on its input.  Previously it may have exited
  erroneously, especially with large input files with no separators.
  [This bug was present in "the beginning".]

  'uptime' no longer incorrectly prints "0 users" on OpenBSD,
  and is being built again on FreeBSD and Haiku.
  [bugs introduced in coreutils-9.2]

  'wc -l' and 'cksum' no longer crash with an "Illegal instruction" error
  on x86 Linux kernels that disable XSAVE YMM.  This was seen on Xen VMs.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]

** Changes in behavior

  'cp -v' and 'mv -v' will no longer output a message for each file skipped
  due to -i, or -u.  Instead they only output this information with --debug.
  I.e., 'cp -u -v' etc. will have the same verbosity as before coreutils-9.3.

  'cksum -b' no longer prints base64-encoded checksums.  Rather that
  short option is reserved to better support emulation of the standalone
  checksum utilities with cksum.

  'mv dir x' now complains differently if x/dir is a nonempty directory.
  Previously it said "mv: cannot move 'dir' to 'x/dir': Directory not \ 
empty",
  where it was unclear whether 'dir' or 'x/dir' was the problem.
  Now it says "mv: cannot overwrite 'x/dir': Directory not empty".
  Similarly for other renames where the destination must be the problem.
  [problem introduced in coreutils-6.0]

** Improvements

  cp, mv, and install now avoid copy_file_range on linux kernels before 5.3
  irrespective of which kernel version coreutils is built against,
  reinstating that behavior from coreutils-9.0.

  comm, cut, join, od, and uniq will now exit immediately upon receiving a
  write error, which is significant when reading large / unbounded inputs.

  split now uses more tuned access patterns for its potentially large input.
  This was seen to improve throughput by 5% when reading from SSD.

  split now supports a configurable $TMPDIR for handling any temporary files.

  tac now falls back to '/tmp' if a configured $TMPDIR is unavailable.

  'who -a' now displays the boot time on Alpine Linux, OpenBSD,
  Cygwin, Haiku, and some Android distributions

  'uptime' now succeeds on some Android distributions, and now counts
  VM saved/sleep time on GNU (Linux, Hurd, kFreeBSD), NetBSD, OpenBSD,
  Minix, and Cygwin.

  On GNU/Linux platforms where utmp-format files have 32-bit timestamps,
  pinky, uptime, and who can now work for times after the year 2038,
  so long as systemd is installed, you configure with a new, experimental
  option --enable-systemd, and you use the programs without file arguments.
  (For example, with systemd 'who /var/log/wtmp' does not work because
  systemd does not support the equivalent of /var/log/wtmp.)
   2023-08-17 12:05:00 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
coreutils: Ignore y2038 requirement on SunOS/i386.

This platform will be dead by then, 32-bit binaries are currently only required
for PAM modules.  For now we just want software to build.
   2023-08-01 13:13:28 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (3) | Package updated
Log message:
coreutils: updated to 9.3

* Noteworthy changes in release 9.3 (2023-04-18) [stable]

** Bug fixes

  cp --reflink=auto (the default), mv, and install
  will again fall back to a standard copy in more cases.
  Previously copies could fail with permission errors on
  more restricted systems like android or containers etc.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.2]

  cp --recursive --backup will again operate correctly.
  Previousy it may have issued "File exists" errors when
  it failed to appropriately rename files being replaced.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.2]

  date --file and dircolors will now diagnose a failure to read a file.
  Previously they would have silently ignored the failure.
  [This bug was present in "the beginning".]

  md5sum --check again correctly prints the status of each file checked.
  Previously the status for files was printed as 'OK' once any file had passed.
  This also applies to cksum, sha*sum, and b2sum.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.2]

  wc will now diagnose if any total counts have overflowed.
  [This bug was present in "the beginning".]

  `wc -c` will again correctly update the read offset of inputs.
  Previously it deduced the size of inputs while leaving the offset unchanged.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.27]

  Coreutils programs no longer fail for timestamps past the year 2038
  on obsolete configurations with 32-bit signed time_t, because the
  build procedure now rejects these configurations.
  [This bug was present in "the beginning".]

** Changes in behavior

  'cp -n' and 'mv -n' now issue an error diagnostic if skipping a file,
  to correspond with -n inducing a nonzero exit status as of coreutils 9.2.
  Similarly 'cp -v' and 'mv -v' will output a message for each file skipped
  due to -n, -i, or -u.

** New features

  cp and mv now support --update=none to always skip existing files
  in the destination, while not affecting the exit status.
  This is equivalent to the --no-clobber behavior from before v9.2.
   2023-04-18 19:53:29 by David Brownlee | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
Add locale/ka files to PLIST
   2023-04-18 16:41:31 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (3)
Log message:
coreutils: Update to 9.2

Changelog:
* Noteworthy changes in release 9.2 (2023-03-20) [stable]

** Bug fixes

  'comm --output-delimiter="" --total' now delimits columns in the total
  line with the NUL character, consistent with NUL column delimiters in
  the rest of the output.  Previously no delimiters were used for the
  total line in this case.
  [bug introduced with the --total option in coreutils-8.26]

  'cp -p' no longer has a security hole when cloning into a dangling
  symbolic link on macOS 10.12 and later.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.1]

  'cp -rx / /mnt' no longer complains "cannot create directory /mnt/".
  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.1]

  cp, mv, and install avoid allocating too much memory, and possibly
  triggering "memory exhausted" failures, on file systems like ZFS,
  which can return varied file system I/O block size values for files.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-6.0]

  cp, mv, and install now immediately acknowledge transient errors
  when creating copy-on-write or cloned reflink files, on supporting
  file systems like XFS, BTRFS, APFS, etc.
  Previously they would have tried again with other copy methods
  which may have resulted in data corruption.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5 and enabled by default in coreutils-9.0]

  cp, mv, and install now handle ENOENT failures across CIFS file systems,
  falling back from copy_file_range to a better supported standard copy.
  [issue introduced in coreutils-9.0]

  'mv --backup=simple f d/' no longer mistakenly backs up d/f to f~.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-9.1]

  rm now fails gracefully when memory is exhausted.
  Previously it may have aborted with a failed assertion in some cases.
  [This bug was present in "the beginning".]

  rm -d (--dir) now properly handles unreadable empty directories.
  E.g., before, this would fail to remove d: mkdir -m0 d; src/rm -d d
  [bug introduced in v8.19 with the addition of this option]

  runcon --compute no longer looks up the specified command in the $PATH
  so that there is no mismatch between the inspected and executed file.
  [bug introduced when runcon was introduced in coreutils-6.9.90]

  'sort -g' no longer infloops when given multiple NaNs on platforms
  like x86_64 where 'long double' has padding bits in memory.
  Although the fix alters sort -g's NaN ordering, that ordering has
  long been documented to be platform-dependent.
  [bug introduced 1999-05-02 and only partly fixed in coreutils-8.14]

  stty ispeed and ospeed options no longer accept and silently ignore
  invalid speed arguments, or give false warnings for valid speeds.
  Now they're validated against both the general accepted set,
  and the system supported set of valid speeds.
  [This bug was present in "the beginning".]

  stty now wraps output appropriately for the terminal width.
  Previously it may have output 1 character too wide for certain widths.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-5.3]

  tail --follow=name works again with non seekable files.  Previously it
  exited with an "Illegal seek" error when such a file was replaced.
  [bug introduced in fileutils-4.1.6]

  'wc -c' will again efficiently determine the size of large files
  on all systems.  It no longer redundantly reads data from certain
  sized files larger than SIZE_MAX.
  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.24]

** Changes in behavior

  Programs now support the new Ronna (R), and Quetta (Q) SI prefixes,
  corresponding to 10^27 and 10^30 respectively,
  along with their binary counterparts Ri (2^90) and Qi (2^100).
  In some cases (e.g., 'sort -h') these new prefixes simply work;
  in others, where they exceed integer width limits, they now elicit
  the same integer overflow diagnostics as other large prefixes.

  'cp --reflink=always A B' no longer leaves behind a newly created
  empty file B merely because copy-on-write clones are not supported.

  'cp -n' and 'mv -n' now exit with nonzero status if they skip their
  action because the destination exists, and likewise for 'cp -i',
  'ln -i', and 'mv -i' when the user declines.  (POSIX specifies this
  for 'cp -i' and 'mv -i'.)

  cp, mv, and install again read in multiples of the reported block size,
  to support unusual devices that may have this constraint.
  [behavior inadvertently changed in coreutils-7.2]

  du --apparent now counts apparent sizes only of regular files and
  symbolic links.  POSIX does not specify the meaning of apparent
  sizes (i.e., st_size) for other file types, and counting those sizes
  could cause confusing and unwanted size mismatches.

  'ls -v' and 'sort -V' go back to sorting ".0" before ".A",
  reverting to the behavior in coreutils-9.0 and earlier.
  This behavior is now documented.

  ls --color now matches a file extension case sensitively
  if there are different sequences defined for separate cases.

  printf unicode \uNNNN, \UNNNNNNNN syntax, now supports all valid
  unicode code points.  Previously is was restricted to the C
  universal character subset, which restricted most points <= 0x9F.

  runcon now exits with status 125 for internal errors.  Previously upon
  internal errors it would exit with status 1, which was less distinguishable
  from errors from the invoked command.

  'split -n N' now splits more evenly when the input size is not a
  multiple of N, by creating N output files whose sizes differ by at
  most 1 byte.  Formerly, it did this only when the input size was
  less than N.

  'stat -c %s' now prints sizes as unsigned, consistent with 'ls'.

** New Features

  cksum now accepts the --base64 (-b) option to print base64-encoded
  checksums.  It also accepts/checks such checksums.

  cksum now accepts the --raw option to output a raw binary checksum.
  No file name or other information is output in this mode.

  cp, mv, and install now accept the --debug option to
  print details on how a file is being copied.

  factor now accepts the --exponents (-h) option to print factors
  in the form p^e, rather than repeating the prime p, e times.

  ls now supports the --time=modification option, to explicitly
  select the default mtime timestamp for display and sorting.

  mv now supports the --no-copy option, which causes it to fail when
  asked to move a file to a different file system.

  split now accepts options like '-n SIZE' that exceed machine integer
  range, when they can be implemented as if they were infinity.

  split -n now accepts piped input even when not in round-robin mode,
  by first copying input to a temporary file to determine its size.

  wc now accepts the --total={auto,never,always,only} option
  to give explicit control over when the total is output.

** Improvements

  cp --sparse=auto (the default), mv, and install,
  will use the copy_file_range syscall now also with sparse files.
  This may be more efficient, by avoiding user space copies,
  and possibly employing copy offloading or reflinking,
  for the non sparse portion of such sparse files.

  On macOS, cp creates a copy-on-write clone in more cases.
  Previously cp would only do this when preserving mode and timestamps.

  date --debug now diagnoses if multiple --date or --set options are
  specified, as only the last specified is significant in that case.

  rm outputs more accurate diagnostics in the presence of errors
  when removing directories.  For example EIO will be faithfully
  diagnosed, rather than being conflated with ENOTEMPTY.

  tail --follow=name now works with single non regular files even
  when their modification time doesn't change when new data is available.
  Previously tail would not show any new data in this case.

  tee -p detects when all remaining outputs have become broken pipes, and
  exits, rather than waiting for more input to induce an exit when written.

  tee now handles non blocking outputs, which can be seen for example with
  telnet or mpirun piping through tee to a terminal.
  Previously tee could truncate data written to such an output and fail,
  and also potentially output a "Resource temporarily unavailable" error.
   2022-07-27 16:34:10 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
coreutils: Reset PKGREVISION
   2022-07-27 16:32:37 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
coreutils, gnuls: Add forgotten patch